Public Services Archive
HMRC ‘particularly feeble’ over failure to close loophole
[responsivevoice_button] The Government chose not to close a tax loophole which
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28 Oct 2013
The other energy scandal – power giants use loophole to cut their own tax bills

[responsivevoice_button] As people buckle under the pressure of soaring energy bills,
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28 Oct 2013
Serco and pathology: the cost of profit

[responsivevoice_button] Serco was pleased to announce this month that GSTS Pathology
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29 Jul 2013
The Severn Trent takeover – corporate profiteering, tax avoidance and Britain’s water supply

[responsivevoice_button] Severn Trent is the latest water company to be targeted
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06 Jun 2013
‘A ridiculous return’: South West Water and the cost of water
[responsivevoice_button] Devon resident Stan Beale considers the excessive prices charged by
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14 May 2013
Unhealthy influence: The rise of the NHS Partners Network
[responsivevoice_button] The transformation of a small private healthcare trade association into
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21 Mar 2013
One in ten claimants have benefits cut on mandatory workfare scheme
[responsivevoice_button] CORRECTION 16 March 2013: This article was first published under
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11 Mar 2013
Leaking away: The financial costs of water privatisation

[responsivevoice_button] As water bills rise again, an investigation by Corporate Watch
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15 Feb 2013
Capita gets bigger slice of UK immigration cake, chokes on first bites

[responsivevoice_button] Thousands of migrants received threatening text messages over the Christmas
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25 Jan 2013
The Workfare Before Christmas
[responsivevoice_button] As the legality of the government’s ‘workfare’ schemes is again
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19 Dec 2012
Transforming Pathology, the Serco way

[responsivevoice_button] The privatisation of pathology services in two London hospitals has
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29 Sep 2012
Using Benefits to Blackmail
[responsivevoice_button] Gillian Wilkes, from the West Midlands, was recently made redundant
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12 Aug 2012
G4S dumps UPM, chooses new partners to house asylum seekers
[responsivevoice_button] The short-lived affair between G4S and United Property Management (UPM)
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03 Jul 2012
‘I was so frozen by stress after having my benefits stopped’
[responsivevoice_button] Karen Stromberg from the London Coalition Against Poverty describes the
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30 Jun 2012
Revealed: the punishing reality of the coalition’s welfare reforms

[responsivevoice_button] Sanctioning – stopping someone’s benefits after a perceived infringement of
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30 Jun 2012
